| HB338 | Pass | This Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (the Statutory Trust Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of proposed amendments to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB337 | Pass | This Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the LP Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB271 | Pass | Currently, section 712 of Title 7 of the Delaware Code prohibits the hunting of any game birds or game animals (except deer) on Sundays. This Bill eliminates the prohibition against hunting game birds on Sundays. The Department of Natural Resources a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB339 | Pass | This Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the GP Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB191 | Engross
50% | This substitute bill provides more clarity on the process by which a tenant may file an action in the Justice of the Peace Court to withhold rent payments in escrow. Specifically, the bill provides what the tenant must file in order to bring such act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Amendment SA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB336 | Pass | This Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the LLC Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB285 | Pass | This Act amends the Delaware Medical Marijuana Act by removing the requirement that a patient have a debilitating medical condition to qualify for a registry identification card, instead allowing health-care providers to make the determination of whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB314 | Intro
25% | This Act removes supervision from the scope of practice of a masters social worker. This Act also prohibits a masters social worker from providing supervision to a licensed clinical social worker applicant. The Board of Social Work Examiners (Board) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee |
| HB17 | Intro
25% | This Act requires all employers in the State to provide employees with a minimum of 1 hour of earned sick time and safety leave for every 30 hours worked. For employers of fewer than 10 employees, the time may be unpaid, job-protected time instead of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Motion to Release Failed |
| SB205 | Pass | This Act promotes increased capital investment at Delaware casinos by restructuring the table games licensing fee reduction currently received by lottery agents to allow capital investments greater than the minimum amounts required under § 4815(b)(3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB307 | Engross
50% | This substitute bill for Senate Bill No. 307 clarifies the meaning of custom fabrication as first defined in Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill No. 102 in the 152nd General Assembly. That substitute bill modified the relationship between custom fabr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 6 NO 1 ABSENT |
| SB151 | Engross
50% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 151. Like Senate Bill No. 151, this Act requires included facilities to disclose information related dementia care services in the form determined by the Department of Health and Social Services, and it es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| SB12 | Engross
50% | This Act amends Delawares laws regarding release of persons accused of crimes (Chapter 21 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code) as required in conjunction with the enactment of an amendment to § 12 of Article I of the Delaware Constitution permitting pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 11:00 am]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB207 | Enroll
75% | This Act eliminates the sunset provision contained in Chapter 170, Volume 84 of the Laws of Delaware related to xylazine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| SB209 | Enroll
75% | This act adds adult sibling of a decedent to the definition of next of kin in Chapter 47 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code relating to the Division of Forensic Science. This expansion of the definition of next of kin will, for example, allow the Medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| HB403 | Engross
50% | This Act transfers the sections pertaining to assessment functions and the New Castle County Board of Assessment Review from the subchapter governing the functions of the Department of Land Use to the subchapter governing the functions of the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| SB265 | Engross
50% | The Delaware Energy Solutions Act of 2024 authorizes processes necessary to help meet the net zero goals of the Climate Change Solutions Act of 2023. The bill facilitates a transition to carbon-free energy sources by (i) preparing for offshore wind t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| SB228 | Engross
50% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 228. This Act achieves the intent of Senate Bill No. 228 by providing an exception to the general prohibition against semiautomatic pistols that have the ability to accept detachable ammunition magazines t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| SB183 | Enroll
75% | The Delaware National Guard is in need of military judges and wants to use qualified military judges who are retired from the Delaware National Guard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| HB348 | Pass | This Act removes the requirement for a lifeguard at a pool exclusively serving a residential or apartment community not accessible to the general public. Under existing law, a lifeguard is not required at a hotel, motel, or campground. A lifeguard is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB304 | Engross
50% | This Act makes changes to nonacademic training requirements for school district and charter school personnel to help ensure that mandatory trainings are relevant to student needs and based on best practices. While nonacademic mandatory trainings are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| HB281 | Enroll
75% | This Act repeals the option of providing health care insurance to state pensioners under Medicare part C, known as a Medicare Advantage Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| HB418 | Intro
25% | This Act amends the Town of Laurel Charter to allow for an increase in the permitted late fee charged for unpaid taxes from three percent (3%) to five percent (5%) per annum for each month such taxes remain unpaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Administration Committee |
| HB282 | Enroll
75% | This Act adds procedural requirements to meetings of the State Employee Benefits Committee (SEBC), revises the membership of the SEBC, and requires that the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources inform State employees and retired State emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| HB262 | Intro
25% | This Act permits wine producers holding a valid license within this State or another state to obtain a license and ship wine directly to Delaware consumers so long as it is done through a common carrier with a carrier permit. This Act requires that w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Not Worked in Committee |
| HB425 | Intro
25% | This Act moves the Office of Medical Marijuana, which is currently under the Department of Health and Social Services to the Office of the Marijuana Commissioner within the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. Under this Act, the Marijuana Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB419 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families (DSCYF) to provide new luggage to children in foster care to use for the transportation of their personal belongings when entering custody, moving from one placement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB414 | Intro
25% | This Bill amends the Charter of the Town of Frankford. In Section 15 of the Charter, it allows the town of Frankford to levy a Real Estate Transfer Tax up to one and a half percent of the sale price, as opposed to the current provision, which allows ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Administration Committee |
| HB408 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a temporary conversion license for existing medical marijuana compassion centers to operate for recreational marijuana purposes, and sets forth requirements to obtain a conversion license and to operate under such a license. This Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| HB110 | Engross
50% | Section 1 amends Title 31 to require all health benefit plans delivered or issued for Medicaid to cover services related to the termination of pregnancy. Coverage provided under this section is not subject to any deductible, coinsurance, copayment, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB319 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Human Resources to develop an executive branch policy restricting nepotism in state employment and prohibiting supervision of a state employee by a relative. It further requires the legislative and judicial branche...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Amendment HA 3 to HB 319 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB386 | Engross
50% | Section 1 of this Act revises the definition of massage establishment by repealing the exemption for all business establishments licensed under other chapters of Title 24. This exemption allows a massage practitioner to work in a licensed cosmetology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee |
| HB382 | Engross
50% | This Act requires that public school students receive a vision screening, including a test for color blindness, in kindergarten. Students must also receive vision screenings at appropriate intervals in grades 1 through 12, to be determined by the DOE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB313 | Intro
25% | Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends § 122. New § 122(18) sets forth certain types of provisions that may be included in contracts between a corporation and its current or prospective stockholders or beneficial owners of its stock, even if those...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
[Hearing: Jun 11 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB365 | Intro
25% | This Act is enabling legislation that establishes the framework and requirements for a competitive mobile sports wagering market in Delaware under the authority of the Lottery Director. Sports wagering is now legal in 38 states, and 29 states have le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB292 | Engross
50% | This Act updates the statute on disclosure of pupil records to ensure compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, and improve information sharing between educational institutions and programs operating i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| SB210 | Enroll
75% | This Act establishes the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Technology and Information or their designee as a member of the Enhanced 911 Emergency Reporting System Service Board by virtue of their position. The Act clarifies the Chief Inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| SB286 | Engross
50% | This Act codifies the Delaware Hispanic Commission (Commission). The Commission was created by former Governor Jack Markell in Executive Order Number 28 to combine and streamline the duties of the former Governors Council on Hispanic Affairs and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| SB223 | Enroll
75% | This Act is the product of the work of stakeholders who, with the encouragement of Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 50 (152nd General Assembly), met to examine how to integrate mobile-integrated healthcare and community paramedicine into existing reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| SB293 | Engross
50% | The Delaware Fair Housing Act, Chapter 46 of Title 6, and Residential Landlord-Tenant Code, Chapter 51 of Title 25, both prohibit discrimination based on source of income, which is defined as including rental payments from any government program. How...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 5 NO 2 ABSENT |
| HB362 | Intro
25% | In 2023, the General Assembly passed House Bill 80, which required the coverage of doula services under the States Medicaid plan beginning in 2024. This Act would require similar coverage under private health insurance plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| SB287 | Engross
50% | This Act clarifies the Auditor of Accounts duties and powers by amending § 2901 of Title 29 to define audit to include performance audits, and by amending §§ 2906 and 2909 of Title 29 to change "postaudit" to "audit." This Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| SB295 | Engross
50% | This Act strengthens the current practice of obtaining service letters for employment in child care facilities to protect children from workers who have engaged in prior acts that are prohibited by the Office of Child Care Licensing. The Act does all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Labor Committee |
| HB406 | Intro
25% | This bill grants the Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement the ability to enter into offers in compromise with importers to resolve alleged violations of Title 4 and Office of the Delaware Alcoholic Beverage Control Commissioner Rules. Currentl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| SB289 | Engross
50% | This Act amends Title 16, Chapter 76 of the Delaware Code relating to energy conservation identified in county and municipal building and plumbing codes. Consistent with codes in other States, including New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, among o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| SB296 | Engross
50% | This Act amends the Delaware Antitrust Act (DAA) (Chapter 21, Title 6 of the Code) to provide indirect purchasers who have been harmed by violations of the Delaware Antitrust Act the ability to sue for damages. Indirect purchasers of a product or ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB352 | Engross
50% | This Act gives county code enforcement constables the authority to tow abandoned vehicles on private property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Amendment SA 1 to HB 352 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB11 | Engross
50% | This is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 11. Like Senate Bill No. 11, this Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to modernize the bail provisions within the Delaware Constitution and clarify the power of the General Assembly to enumerate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Administration Committee |
| SB275 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this Act is to combat aggressive driving and dangerous speed differentials on targeted roadways. This Act prohibits vehicles from traveling in the left lane on the portions of State Route 1 or Interstate 495 that are an express highway...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| SB13 | Engross
50% | Healthcare facility assessments are currently the second largest source of funding for states shares of Medicaid costs, behind general funds. Today, 49 states have at least one facility assessment in place, including Delaware, while 34 states and Was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
